representatives speaking on behalf of the candidates, and, again, mitt romney, and we saw mayor juliani and john thune and democrats doing the same for obama. do you recall the procedure those who supported you as well as those who supported joe biden were going to leave the debate early, if not even watch the -- say the last 15 minutes of the debate because a lot of these guys, governor, were in place and talking before the debate was even done. in other words, is that usual? >> you know, i had no idea four years ago what was going on behind the scenes or in headquarters. in fact, we used to have a running joke that the jv squad, those on the vice presidential side of the ticket, we used to talk about where is this mysterious headquarters, and what are they doing to this campaign? i didn't know back then how it worked. i still don't know the inside baseball stuff. i just know as an average american that i am expecting the candidates at this level to be able to explain to the people the true state of our union, what our economy actually looks like, and what we can do to turn things around, and,